holy baby shit....global diaper output at risk

No problem.. I use cloth and sew them myself. I suggest those who can't do without disposables look into at least having flats or prefolds around just incase.

AMEN to this^^^^^^^

go back to cloth diapers ....

cloth diapers!!!

It is disturbing that sometimes a single factory can significantly effect the availability of things we have come to rely on. It can take years to replace a factory, too.

What if the diapers are radioactive from Fuk-u-shima? Maybe its a good thing the plant burnt down.

They can go back to using cloth diapers and rubber panties over them. Disposable diapers have made women lazy. In the fifties, children were potty trained at a year old. It was that way until disposable diapers came along. Now the average child is potty trained at four years old. Schools aren't allowing children in unless they are fully potty trained.

Believe it or not - we all got along just fine with cotton diapers that were washed, sterilized and reused over and over again. Most people used diaper services that collected the dirty diapers (stored in a disinfectant liquid) twice a week and delivered your fresh new diapers back to you. You got the diapers your baby started out with (new ones) and never used any others than the one your child had dirtied. The didn't co-mingle them.

Some brave mothers would actually do their diapers at home: first in a washing machine in hot water, bleach and detergent. Then rinsed, and spun dry and then put into a kettle with a pressure cooker type lid and pressure steamed for 20 minutes. Then washed again in just regular Dreft or Ivory detergent (both safe for baby skin, multiple rinses, and then spun and dried. Well to do house holds had the maids iron their diapers - poorer homes without help did not usually bother. (Ironed and monogrammed diapers on your baby were a quick way to estimate the father and mother's social and economic status - much more accurately than a Gucci outfit is today!)

It would NOT kill modern women to go back to doing the diapers at home. It's not that difficult save for buying a big pressure canner and sterilizing the diapers in the high pressure steam for a few minutes. The double wash was easy. The solution they soaked in before being washed dissolved most of the solids and with a pre-wash cycle, any remaining wash dumped down the drain with enough bleach to kill anything in it.

This method worked for generations and today in NYC and LA and SF, the wealthier moms still use cotton or linen diapers and wouldn't think of putting a plastic diaper on their little darlings!

Oh, for full time house hold help that would gladly do such chores as diaper laundry for forty or fifty bucks a week! You 30-somethings with babies don't know how much easier the help made having a child!

That is idiotic. I've used cloth diapers for the last 22 years and I've never once 'sterilized' them. Rinse, wash (bleach or hot water depending on the type of diapers), rinse twice and line dry.

Never any problems. If I had to wash diapers like you've described, I'd use disposables, too!

Thats beyond crazy.Paranoid

Never heard of washing diapers any other way than you do!

What a crock of shit!

I use cloth nappies, but the 21st century type. They are just like disposables but cloth. No safety pins and daddy friendly. I wash them exactly like normal clothes, no need to soak or rinse. My baby is bf so the poo just disolves.

go look at Ittibitti.com.au

I barely have time to eat sometimes. Or even go to the bathroom promptly sometimes. A toddler takes a lot outta you. I could understand washing them, and double rinsing. But sanitizing and ironing too? Yea right. I'd stick to disposables. Gotta supply of cloth diapers for just in case.

Phew!

I'm one of those thirty something parents and I wasn't looking forward to all of the above should I have to end up using cloth.

We should probably switch to cloth anyway, as it's better for the environment, cheaper etc., but I doubt I could convince my wife to do it.

I've seen those, they look pretty easy to use. I think I would have to soak tho, my kid is two.

We were sort of broke when my kid was little, so I mostly washed diapers by hand. Nobody died from contact with any substances, and the diapers looked nice and white on the clothesline.

No need to soak just rinse then. They are made out of a non staining material. I love them, I recommend them to everyone! So easy, so reliable, no leakages (yet).

The story did not live up to the titles expectations.

Cloth diapers were a good invention for the stay at home 50's mom with nothing to do but cook,clean,take care of the kid.But in todays economy they are not practicle,when two working parents are a requirement.But,who needs radioactive japan diapers?

agreed, apart from the 'nothing to do but...'

there is 'nothing' about it, lets get that straight

babies dont just disappear when parents go off to work - someone else takes care of them and does the nappy duty, which wouldnt include boil washing cloth nappies. nurserys demand disposables

disposable nappies are a godsend, hence their popularity. do the cloth nappy evangelists consider the sheer amount of chemicals and water and energy required to get a nappy clean? babies take an environment toll whatever the option you choose, dont kid yourself

are other aspects of your life stuck in the 50s? no, you probably drive a 4x4 instead of 'doing the right thing' and walking, like 50s mothers did, eh?

(and im a mother before anyone starts up)

as for claiming most kids arent potty trained til 4. rubbish!


im sure japan will cope and import the baby-bottom-coverings if need be

Oh hell no! You have not seen the new cloth diapers today my friend.
They fit just like the disposable ones with super soft bamboo or hemp inserts.
Heck, I have the all-in-ones that adjust from birth till they are potty trained!

Shit!

People should never use disposable nappies, they are disgusting and are an environmental hazzard. Use normal terry nappies and clean them after use Its healthier for everyone.

How did this go from a news report to a thread criticizing modern women? lol

GLP fail again.

It isn't really fail to have a discussion.

It's quite natural to move on to the topic of using cloth diapers when discussing a possible shortage of disposables.

It's also easy enough to move on to the discussion of disposable vs. non-disposable; effects on environment, cost, time, etc.

Every debate will involve criticism.

Your comment is fail!

All your base are belong to us.

Women already criticize eachother enough as it is, everyday, whether it be if they breastfeed or not, use cloth diapers or not, have a natural birth or an epidural, etc. etc. etc.

If I want to read some bullshit like that I'll go to babycenter's forums.

No one asked you to click on this thread, let alone comment.

This could have a very smelly outcome!